Tag: phone

Steve Jobs took to a stage a dozen years ago this week to introduce a revolutionary new product to the world: the first Apple iPhone. That groundbreaking device, and the competitors that followed, changed the way people communicated, ordered dinner and hailed a taxi. The technology world reoriented around the smartphone, supplanting the personal computer,…

Reader reaction to The Wall Street Journal’s article last week on automated job interviews was swift and mostly negative. Hundreds of people sounded off via email, comments and posts on social media, writing about the practice of companies screening job applicants by asking them to take a recorded phone interview with no one on the…

Federal officials on Wednesday afternoon will run the first nationwide test of the wireless emergency alert system. It uses a type of alert that can only be sent by the president, and that consumers aren’t able to turn off. Why it matters: There’s been some concern that President Trump could use the alerts to broadcast…

There he is, the size of a Candy Land piece, right on the ottoman in front of me: teeny, tiny LeBron James. He jets down the Golden State Warriors’ court—sitting flush on the chocolate leather—and dunks in a hoop the size of my wedding band. No, I haven’t had a psychedelic sandwich for lunch. I’ve…

President Trump tweeted Sunday that he’s working with Chinese President Xi Jinping to save Chinese phone maker ZTE, which halted operations last week due to U.S. sanctions pressure. The big picture: The Commerce Department banned American companies from selling parts to ZTE for seven years because the Chinese company violated U.S. sanctions by selling equipment…

Rudy Giuliani has walked back that Fox News interview after Trump made comments on the former mayor before heading to the NRA’s annual meeting telling reporters, “he’ll get his facts straight… There has been a lot of misinformation. I say, You know what? Learn before you speak. It’s a lot easier.” Giuliani’s statement, issued this…